Borsigplatz | |
|---|---|
Borough | |
 Borsigplatz with roundabout | |
| Country | Germany |
| City | Dortmund |
| Urban district | Innenstadt-Nord |
| Population (December 2012) | |
| • Total | 11,141 |
Borsigplatz is a borough (officially a statistical district) in the urban district ("Stadtbezirk") Innenstadt-Nord in Dortmund, Germany. It lies in the northern part of the city center, just outside the former city wall. It has a population of 11,141 (December 2012). [1]
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
Dortmund is, with a population of 586,600 (2017), the third-largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and Germany's eighth-largest city. It is the largest city of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million (2011) inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers, it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north and the Alps, Lake Constance and the High Rhine to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.
The eponymous square, which gives the borough its name, is famous for being the birthplace of football club Borussia Dortmund. The club was founded in 1909 by members of a catholic youth group in a bar situated right at the square. [2]
Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund[boˈʁʊsi̯aː ˈdɔɐ̯tmʊnt], BVB, or simply Dortmund, is a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1909 by eighteen football players from Dortmund, the football team is part of a large membership-based sports club with more than 145,000 members, making BVB the second largest sports club by membership in Germany. Dortmund plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system.
As the rest of Dortmund's northern city center, the borough has suffered from the fall of the coal and steel industry. The unemployment rate is high, since this part of the city was traditionally inhabited by industrial workers. 67.9 percent of the inhabitants have a migration background, which is the second highest number of the 62 statistical districts in Dortmund (after Nordmarkt). [1]
Nordmarkt is a borough in the Stadtbezirk Innenstadt-Nord in Dortmund, Germany.
